Method of transferring colors



Sept. 1, 192's. 1 1,552,374

P. YOHNS I I METHOD OF TRANSFERRING COLORS Filed March 19, 1925 v ik WITNESSES 4 INVENTOR g e /9, I a ATTORNEYS Patented Sept. 1, 1925; I

UNITED STATES raur. terms, or new YORK, in Y. union or mums corona.

Application filed Isl-011 '19, 1925. Serial No. 16,775. 7

' To all whom it me concern:

Be it known'that PAUL YoHNs, a'citizen of Germany (having declared my intention of becoming a citizen of the United States), and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Method of Transferrin Colors, of which the following is a full, 0 ear, and exact description. p

This invention relates to the art of transferring colors from a pattern sheet onto a ornaments and the like by means of an easily operated transfer attern.

The invention has orits object the rovisionofa simple and convenient metho of effecting the transfer, whereby the colors will be more efficiently incorporated into the fabric than hithereto has been possible.

It is my purpose to print or otherwise dispose on a I using solub e dyes. In the operation of the pattern thus prepared, it is placed with the printed surface upward on a table or other at surface, and the sheet of material to which the design is to be transferred is placed thereover. A moist cloth is then dis- 1posed over the material to be printed and eat is preferably applied to the moist cloth,

this heat in most cases beingvery readily applied by running a hot iron over the top of the moist cloth. By reason of this simple operation, it is apparent that any ordinary housewife, after once: readingethe instructions, can readil make, the proper transfers without any d' culty. l

In the drawin Fi 1 is a p an view of a sheet of paper. or 0 er thin material used as a pattern sheet; and

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the simple 'ap aratus used to effect the transfer. 7

e form of the invention shown in the drawings is a preferred form, although it is understood that modifications in the construction and arrangement of the parts and in the character of thematerials used may be "adopted without departing from the spirit of the invention as set forth in the appended 'claims.

The purchaser of the pattern 1 places same' attern. sheet a design in colors,

' up into t on a flat surface, printed side up; over this is laid the linen or other fabric 3 to be decorated right side down towards the pattern 1. Then a moist cloth 4 is laid over the whole and a very hot pressing iron 5 is guided over this; the heat generates steam and this first chemically dissolves the printed stuff and then draws it up into the fibres of the fabric. V

It is to be understood-that the above arrangement may be reversed without departing from the principle v of my invention,

namely, the moist cloth 4 may be laid down first','the linen or other fabric 3 over this, the pattern face down on the linen-and then the hot iron guided over the back of the pattern; the heat of the iron, acting through all the layers, will, as before, generate steam in in the moist cloth 4 and this .steam in the same manner as before will beforced from the reverse side of the fabric 3 through the interstices and pores of its threads to act in the previously described way on all parts of the printed pattern simultaneously and at right angles to the ever, I prefer the rst ment, as it ives better results. Instead of a moist clot a sheet of blotting paper or.

any other material capable. of holding moisfrom the spirit 0 myiinvention; the spirit of my invention residing in the method of generatin steam or hot moisture at a place outside 0 but adjacent the back-surface of the fabric to be decorated and then by means of pressure sending said steam or hot moisture at right angles all the -way through the said fabric to its front surface and against the face of the pattern in contact therewith, to act on the colors of the pattern first by dissolvingl'them and then by drawing them e fabric. What I claim 'is:- 1. A method of usin thereon, which com rises laying the attern on a surface with t e des gn upw a transfer pattern having a design in so uble dyes d1sposed place.

ing a fabric to which the design 'is to be transferred over said pattern, dis osing a moist piece of'material over said fa ric, and applying heat to the moist material.

2. A method of utilizing a transfer pattern having a design in soluble dyes disposed thereon, which comprises brin the face of the. pattern into contact with the front side of the fabric to be decorated, then bringing the reverse side of said fabric into contact with a piece of material which has previously been filled with moisture, and

then applying heat to turn the moisture into steam. Y

'3. A method of utilizin a' transfer pattern having a design in solu le dyesidisposed thereon, whichcomprises bringing the front side of the fabric to be decorated into contact with .theface of the pattern then bringing the reverse side of said fabric into contact with a piece of material which has prefabric.

viousl been filled with-moisture an'dnthen applying heat and. pressure whereby the dyes are dissolved and drawn up into the 4, A method of using a transfer pattern having a design in soluble-colors disposed f thereon, which comprises bringing the back heat and side of the fabric to be decoratedinto con-' 20 tact with a piece of material which haspreviously been moistened, then bringi a pattern onto 'a fabric, which comprises, by the application of heat, gene-rating stagam v a 1n a moist piece of material place cent the-back surface. of the fabric to be ornamented, and then by pressure sending this steam through thesaid fabric to its front -.surface a ainst which the face of the pattern is isposed whereby the colors are loosened from the transfer sheet-and drawn 35 up into the fibres of the fabric.

PAUL YOHNS.

and then applying 

